Tag Archives: Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals affirms a commission decision that claimant’s knee injury arose out of his employment at appellant’s paper mill, based on evidence of the unusual height of a step from a platform. The deputy commissioner found that claimant’s ...

The Court of Appeals upholds the commission’s denial and dismissal of a claim for permanent partial disability benefits; claimant did not show the 15 percent disability rating provided by a physician’s assistant had been reviewed by claimant’s treating physician, or ...

A security guard who fell backwards when she sat on a low brick wall at her workplace cannot show that her accident was causally related to any actual risk at her workplace, and the Court of Appeals reverses a workers’ ...

A defendant who received a deferred disposition on a marijuana charge, but who was under the influence of drugs when she returned to general district court several days later to request a restricted driver’s license and she tested positive for ...

The Court of Appeals upholds an award of permanent partial disability benefits for a claimant based on a medical finding of claimant’s diminished range of motion and loss of strength of 34 percent in her right arm. In reaching his ...

Due to police discovery of blood spatter and bleach stains on a sidewalk to a home on the street where a shooting had been reported, and the suspicious behavior of an occupant who said defendant had been shot but she ...

Although husband deposited his paychecks into a bank account wife used to pay the mortgage for two years during the parties’ marriage, other expenses were paid from that account and wife supplemented the account with funds from another bank account ...

A divorce court did not abuse its discretion in reducing a 71-year-old wife’s $1,200 spousal support obligation to her 80-year-old husband to $900 per month, in light of limitations on her ability to make capital improvements on her real estate ...

Although defendant appeared nervous and shaky when police questioned him after stepping out of their unmarked Chevy Tahoe at 5:45 p.m. in a public parking lot while on routine patrol, defendant’s demeanor and his disregard of an officer’s instructions to ...

A discount store manager who had to maneuver around a stack of one-gallon water containers at the front of a cash register in order to close out a cash register at the end of the day, can recover workers’ comp ...